individualize
Americanverb (used with object)
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individualizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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individualized,
past participle, past
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individualizing
present participle
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to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
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to mention, indicate, or consider individually; specify; particularize.
verb
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to make or mark as individual or distinctive in character
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to consider or treat individually; particularize
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to make or modify so as to meet the special requirements of a person
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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individualizesimple
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individualizessimple
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have individualizedperfect
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has individualizedperfect
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am individualizingprogressive
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are individualizingprogressive
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is individualizingprogressive
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have been individualizingperfect progressive
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has been individualizingperfect progressive
Past
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individualizedsimple
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had individualizedperfect
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was individualizingprogressive
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were individualizingprogressive
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had been individualizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of individualize
First recorded in 1630–40; individual + -ize
Example Sentences
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The researchers hope that the results of this study will help to identify elbow injuries in children who play baseball and to individualize treatment based on skeletal maturity.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
“It helps to humanize and individualize the vastness of the Holocaust and personalize history that is sometimes only communicated through statistics,” she added.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2022
“When you individualize and talk about individual stories, those stories are hard and very difficult,” Ms. Ardern told Newshub, a New Zealand news outlet, in February.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
“But in the end,” she adds, “there’s always going to be something to individualize your handwriting from somebody else.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 2, 2022
They not only illustrate abundantly from nature and real things in life; they nearly always individualize and personify their ideas.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry
Nanjiani individualizes and sells the familiar dynamic of being caught between two worlds, sympathizing with Banerjee before things turn ugly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
It's the delivery that individualizes each, with tonal differences that make Gwen Stefani's take invigorating and upbeat where Mark Hollis' original has a doleful air.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2022
While golfers can provide launch monitor numbers as part of the interview process with Callaway’s Distance Fitting, Vrska said it is the one-on-one interaction that refines and individualizes the recommendations.
From Golf Digest ● May 8, 2020
“Archetypes of Femininity” is the theme of Cristian Ianculescu’s show at Waverly Street Gallery, but the artist individualizes his sculpted women with a variety of styles and materials.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2017
Mixed as the population of Tangier is, still one easily individualizes the several races, and above all cannot fail to admire the noble, manly specimens of Moorish blood.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
The agency still could cancel funding if recipients violate their grant terms, but it would have to provide an individualized explanation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Health care providers can work with patients to develop individualized strategies for managing osteoarthritis.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
“We believe individualized neoantigen therapies have the potential to redefine how patients with completely resected stage IIB-IV melanoma are treated.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
A recent report in the Journal of Periodontology predicts that technology such as AI, diagnostic saliva tests and sensor-based monitoring will allow for more early detection and individualized treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The Fourth Amendment, the court reasoned, forbids the police from seizing people and searching them without some individualized suspicion that they have committed or are committing a crime.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
“I think every single one of our routines, BJ did an incredible and phenomenal job of individualizing them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
Walt Disney took his own liberties, experimentally drafting the raven-haired beauty as both a redhead and a blond, and individualizing the dwarfs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
When the script doesn’t provide the individualizing details that transcend stereotypes, the performances do.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
They do a good job of individualizing instruction and enrichment.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2019
I have taken up the matter of the description of persons under that head, and I shall take up, in this chapter, the matter of speech as both illustrating character and individualizing the person.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
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